Publicado por Boston: Charles Little and James Brown, 1843
Librería: MW Books, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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EUR 60,32
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Añadir al carritoFirst Edition. A poor copy with the spine missing and some wear and tear to the boards as with age. Pages remain clear. Physical description; 427 pages. Subjects; Calderón de la Barca Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) )1804?-1882). 19th century. Life Style. Manners and customs. Travel. Mexico Description and travel 19th century. Mexico Social life and customs. Description and Travel. Nineteenth Century. 1 Kg.
Publicado por Boston: Charles Little and James Brown, 1843
Librería: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irlanda
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EUR 48,00
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Añadir al carritoFirst Edition. A poor copy with the spine missing and some wear and tear to the boards as with age. Pages remain clear. Physical description; 427 pages. Subjects; Calderón de la Barca Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) )1804?-1882). 19th century. Life Style. Manners and customs. Travel. Mexico Description and travel 19th century. Mexico Social life and customs. Description and Travel. Nineteenth Century. 1 Kg.
Publicado por Chapman and Hall, London, England, 1843
Librería: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, Estados Unidos de America
EUR 272,56
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Añadir al carritoLeather-bound. Condición: Very Good. Octavo. Smooth calf boards (8 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in.) gilt ruled border, with repeating leaf design stamped within. Four raised bands to spine (five compartments) with contrasting title label in dark red, with gilt lettering. Gilt designs to raised bands, and gilt chainlink design to spine caps. Marbled edges. Lovely marbled endpapers of Midnight blue, pale blue, with white, red and yellow veining. Rubbing and some scuffing to extremities, particularly spine. Evidence of past rebacking. Previous owner's name and date ( Elizabeth Gregor, 1844). Begins with Glossary of Spanish or Mexican words.book comprises fifty-four letters. [xiv], 437 pp., [3]. "The present work is the result of observations made during a two-year's residence in Mexico, by a lady, whose position there made her intimately acquainted with its society, and opened to her the best sources of information.It consists of letters written to members of her own family, and, really, not intended orignally -- however incredible the assertion, -- for publication.
Publicado por Chapman and Hall, 1843
Librería: The Literary Lion,Ltd., San Diego, CA, Estados Unidos de America
EUR 396,45
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Añadir al carritoHardcover. Condición: Very Good. First edition. Preface by W. H. Prescott. Large octavo publisher's black ribbed cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Short splits at the spine joints; front inner hinge cracked but sound. Light foxing to preliminaries, but contents clean. The author was the wife of the Spanish Minister to the United States, who was sent on a special mission to Mexico after that country's independence. Written as a series of letters, it describes the politics, prominent people, society and topography of the time. "One of the classic writings of nineteenth-century travel due to her position, was able to become intimately acquainted with Mexican society and had access to any information she sought. This is probably the most important record of the social life of the country at that time." Hill p 43. A very good copy, scarce in the original cloth. Sabin 9889.
Publicado por London: Chapman And Hall, 1843., 1843
Librería: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
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EUR 564,41
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Añadir al carrito8vo. pp. xiv, 437. music in the text. modern half morocco, t.e.g. First London Edition (?). Sabin and NUC also cite a Chapman and Hall London edition of the same year with slightly different collation: pp. xii, 436. Including remarks on politics, carnivals, convents and churches, bull-fighting, gambling, servants, feasts and festivals, opera and theatre, leading men, volcanoes, Indian superstitions, &c. The author was the Scottish wife of the Spanish Minister to the United States, who was sent on a special mission to Mexico after Independence. "One of the classic writings of nineteenth-century travel.due to her position, [she] was able to become intimately acquainted with Mexican society and had access to any information she sought.This is probably the most important record of the social life of the country at that time" (Hill). "This is the earliest and most balanced first-hand account of Mexico to be written by a woman." (Robinson) According to Robinson, her book was so detailed that it was used by the American army as a guide during the campaign against Mexico in 1847. Hill p. 43. Robinson, Wayward Women, p. 233. cfSabin 9889.